Thread: Roadster pickup is a heavy little son of a gun

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It's been my experience that big scales are somewhat inaccurate on the low end . . . certified or not.

A better way to weigh the car is to put one corner of it on one of the 1000# platform scales with balance beam.

Make yourself three wood blocks the height of the scale platform, set the car up on the wood blocks and the scale, weigh each corner of the car and add it up.

Kinda interesting the differing weights at each corner.

You can find these old scales for not much money sometimes.
I got one for $60. USD.
It cleaned up fine, I just have to make a small counterweight that's part of the permanent counterweight so that it balances at zero when not loaded.

Fwiw, my highboy 32 weighed 2400# on the NHRA scales at March Meet a few years back.
Most highboy 32s - steel or glass - running SBC, T-350 and a nine inch come in at 2300#.

My roadster has a 462" Buick - which weighs 15# more than an SBC, T-400 which weighs probably 60# more than a T-350, a top which is about 45# and a 2 1/2" OD with .120 wall four point roll bar which is maybe 60#.

Originally Posted by C9x

Kinda interesting the differing weights at each corner.

yeah you should see how the weights differ in one of these modified stock-cars holy moly !!

I'm very surprised that your rpu is 2900 lbs, I would have guess no more than 2500. My 34 Plymouth 2 door sedan is 3240 lbs. That's only 340 lbs more and I have a heavier roof (steel) and all steel fenders and running boards. Of course the Vette rear is probably lighter than your rear. But still.........

....yeah Brian, that sounds like a lot. My '32 3 window, glass body, turbo 400, 400 small block, 9" rear was 2450 on truck scales.... Hard to imagine your roadster p/u weighing 450 pounds MORE! Bill